A girl who spent £16m in Harrods and is topic to the UK’s first McMafia-style “soiled cash” investigation has been launched on bail after 9 days in custody following a request for her extradition to Azerbaijan.

Zamira Hajiyeva was arrested by the Metropolitan police final week on the request of authorities in Azerbaijan, the place she is needed on two expenses of embezzlement. Her husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, was jailed in 2016 for defrauding Azerbaijan’s nationwide financial institution out of as much as 5bn manat (£2.2bn).

Hajiyeva was launched on bail on Thursday after a excessive court docket decide dismissed a request by the Azerbaijani authorities to have her held in custody till an extradition listening to. Mr Justice Jeremy Baker mentioned there have been no “substantial grounds” to disclaim Hajiyeva bail.

Hajiyeva, 55, denies the costs. She is the primary goal of the UK’s new system of unexplained wealth orders, which have been nicknamed McMafia legal guidelines after the BBC One drama. Hajiyeva, who was recognized solely as Mrs A till an anonymity order was lifted final month, dangers shedding two UK properties price £22m if she fails to elucidate there was a professional supply of the funds used to purchase a £11.5m townhouse in Knightsbridge, central London, and a £10.5m golf course close to Ascot, Berkshire.

Earlier this 12 months, a court docket heard Hajiyeva spent greater than £16m at Harrods over the course of a decade. Final week, jewelry price £400,000 was seized from Christie’s public sale home in reference to the case.

Hajiyeva’s lawyer mentioned: “Our shopper stays assured that she is going to defeat this abusive and politically motivated extradition request sooner or later.

“Our shopper is a 55-year-old mom of three with the strongest attainable ties to the UK, and it’s unlucky that she was compelled to spend over 9 days in custody regardless of having cooperated absolutely with the UK authorities and surrendered to them by appointment in respect of this request.”

The decide dominated Hajiyeva must be launched on bail however be topic to a 9pm-to-6am curfew. She should even be topic to digital tagging, report back to Charing Cross police station each morning and never journey exterior the M25.